Learning the Command Line

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Author: Mike Starke
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Subject: Learning the Command Line
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:32:34PM -0700, Victor Odhner wrote:
/_Unix In A Nutshell is the "standard" book on *nix commands.
/_But it doesn't really contain a lot that you can't find
/_on the 'man' pages or in 'info'.
/_
I agree. Sit down with a cup of coffee and do something like:

cd /bin
ls a*
man <whatever peaked your interest>
ls <b-z>
wash
rinse
repeat
cd /sbin
etc,
etc